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by pinky1417 6y ago
Worse than anti-maskers? At least someone wearing a valved mask is reducing the risk that he/she will get COVID in the first place and, thus, become a spreader. Masks that don't filter exhalations can still contribute to reducing
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by pinky1417 6y ago
Perhaps Parler wasn’t a true free speech platform, ie one that moderated only the legal bare minimum. But, even if it’s true that it was friendly to only end of the political spectrum, at least it was a competitor to Twitter. The eliminatio
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by pinky1417 6y ago
*this woman This article does make her sound like* a jerk. I don't mean to suggest Lauren Holliday is* a jerk or an asshole; she might be a perfectible reasonable and respectful person. But her writing here takes reputable evidence a
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by pinky1417 6y ago
In business school, we'd say that, for growth to be value-creating, the return on invested capital has to exceed cost of capital. All that means is that a dollar invested in a company has to turn into something more than a dollar in ea
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by pinky1417 6y ago
I don't even think the SEC would have to characterize the WSB commenters as a group, merely that "alone or with 1 or more persons" they caused trades that increased GME's price and that their goal was to cause others to
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by pinky1417 6y ago
Right, hence my 4x margin assumption for my back-of-the-envelope math. But I still think there's a limit to what any one company can do. The insurance company Allstate could be worth $1T if they end up entering a business producing rev
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by pinky1417 6y ago
I have no idea whether Hyundai made a good deal for itself, but I think it's healthy to approach any acquisition or valuation with skepticism. Corporate M&A seems especially affected by misperception and bad incentives. Executives
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by pinky1417 6y ago
If I have to answer, I’d say $1.25MM vs $9k is more dissimilar than Tesla vs GM. But unless you believe that both Tesla and GM won’t grow sales, comparing market cap to cars sold in the last year(s) has only limited usefulness. If we assume
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by pinky1417 6y ago
I agree with you that the analysis is shallow. Moreover, even if we assumed Tesla is overvalued (including a future shift to green energy and whatever brilliant ideas Musk comes up with in the future), that wouldn’t mean the whole market is
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by pinky1417 6y ago
One of CPI's big limitations is that it only considers consumer goods and services (the "consumer" part of "consumer price index"). But "consumers" themselves spend a good deal of money on other things, na
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by pinky1417 6y ago
Fair point. Didn’t mean to imply that the rotors would meaningfully slow descent. Just meant to say that, parachute or not, the rotors could still be moving while unpowered. It’s more of a technicality since the slow rotation of the tiny bl
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by pinky1417 6y ago
The drone’s blades would likely still be spinning during a parachute descent... albeit at lower revolutions per minute. I’d imagine drones operate like a helicopter: in the event of an engine failure, the helicopter goes into “autorotation”
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by pinky1417 6y ago
I appreciate seeing Charlie Munger show up on HN. He may not be a technophile but his business and life principals are applicable everywhere. I share Munger's opinion, not just on Tesla. I don't short companies because, as John Ma
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by pinky1417 6y ago
If you're against a broad market index fund right now (which I think is fair, not so much because of the socio-political climate, but because of the high implied valuations of the companies within it), I'd recommend putting about
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by pinky1417 6y ago
Two nitpicks: an FFP2 should also work pretty well with its 94% filtration capacity. Second, I assume you're in Europe, because USA-spec N95 or N100 masks would also work. Doesn't affect the point you're making. Reason and re
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by pinky1417 6y ago
If I were sampling perceptions of Bill's effect on the company, I'd obviously place a higher value on your experience than my own short time at SRA. Didn't know about the stacked ranking thing; I'm not a fan of it (and I
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by pinky1417 6y ago
I wonder if Blackboard is any better since 2016 when Bill Ballhaus took over as CEO. I met him when I was an intern at SRA International and was beyond impressed in my brief time there. Besides his obviously impressive technical and managem
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by pinky1417 7y ago
Both of your statements are true. However, I feel it would be a misrepresentation or, at least, a misunderstanding to say I suggested that "forecasts have been wrong, forecasting is pointless." Perhaps I'm misunderstanding yo
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by pinky1417 7y ago
Agree 100%. The whole reason why market economies - economies based on the decentralized mechanism we call "prices" - work better than any other economic system is because they're decentralized. If one person or group of expe
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by pinky1417 7y ago
I hope the won’t-pay-$100-for-a-painting (or $100 per installment) crowd is large enough to make your business worthwhile. It’d be amazing to simultaneously fund new artists, bring regular Joes/Janes into the art world, and have a sust
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by pinky1417 7y ago
Same here. If any of y'all want to shoot the shit about Sloan, feel free to send me an email. I'm cooped up at home in South Florida and desperate for social interaction!
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by pinky1417 7y ago
I played this game during orientation when I started my MBA at MIT Sloan (the game was originated at Sloan). In my second year, I facilitated the game. The most eye-opening thing for me was that a good quarter of students were frustrated an
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by pinky1417 7y ago
In the back of my mind, I knew that if I got an antibiotic resistant infection in the US - an infection that didn’t respond to a few rounds of different drugs - I’d fly ASAP to Tbilisi, Georgia to go to the Phage Therapy Center. I’m beyond
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by pinky1417 7y ago
As a startup founder with wealthy parents, this seems likely. Not only can parental wealth serve as a safety net, but you might also get direct investment from your family, have a safety net if things don’t work out (enabling you to take mo
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by pinky1417 7y ago
Maybe we'll call them something besides "cars" in the future, but motorized air conditioned boxes that take us directly from point to point are not going away anytime soon. I'm all in favor of more transportation options
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by pinky1417 7y ago
Having a c-section might not be the underlying cause of the problem. Doctors carry out c-sections when a vaginal birth would create complications for the mother or the child. I.E. the mother or child was already "sicker" prior to
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by pinky1417 7y ago
Cal's essay is backed by empirics. I'd add that, for those like me who used to believe that women are better multitaskers, both men and women are equally bad at multitasking. Early studies would sometimes show a female advantage o
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by pinky1417 7y ago
And even with high volumes, you can always pick something retrospectively that beats the market. It's not useful to look back and say, for example, if you put money into X stock at Y time you'd beat the market. You can't go b
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by pinky1417 7y ago
I'm sure, as the article says, Apple contractors listened "...without Apple users’ knowledge." However, that doesn't necessarily mean Apple didn't ask permission - I would bet there's something in the terms of
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by pinky1417 7y ago
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